Joseph Rykwert Quotes
One of the general considerations about new buildings is that people tend to say that anything new is a monstrosity. And then after a while they either accept them or they go on thinking that they are monstrosities. Reactions vary. This depends to some extent on the quality of the building.Joseph Rykwert
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Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.
T. S. Eliot -
I just wanna get to the end of the day without it raining.
Campbell Scott -
I do not have the angst and the anxiety of my youth. I've gotten to a place where I'm very comfortable with who I am.
Walton Goggins -
People say, 'Wow, you've achieved it all this year: two world championship wins and an Olympic gold medal.' And I think, 'Yeah, but how come I feel so unsatisfied and under pressure all over again?'
Victoria Pendleton -
Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.
Dag Hammarskjold -
I don't know that much about who directs what movies, but I'm definitely inspired by the look of old movies; I find them to be really beautiful.
Lana Del Rey
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What I want to give in the theatre is beauty, that's what I want to give.
Edith Evans -
I could not disobey the will of the Catalan parliament.
Carles Puigdemont -
I never felt a need to manipulate my career from the outside - try to be someone I wasn't to get ahead.
Randy Harrison -
Hogs and pigs are very intelligent.
Jack Hanna -
You can't write a screenplay if you've been doing a zero-hours contract. Which means that the people who write drama, the people who commission dramas, and the people who direct dramas all come from a small circle of society.
Eddie Marsan -
Putin is going to do what Putin is going to do.
Nancy Pelosi
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The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I, therefore, intend to oppose the effort to increase America's debt.
Barack Obama -
Well it's hard to remember who, but I drunk dial a lot.
Adam Garcia -
I think I'm a good judge of character.
Tamara Ecclestone -
I think India's policy that the openness of trade should be carried through a multilateral process is the right one.
Urjit Patel -
I never was in the Nation of Islam... I mean, what I call myself is a natural Muslim, 'cause it's just me and God. You know, going to the mosque, the ritual and the tradition, it's just not in me to do. So I don't do it.
Ice Cube -
I like writing. It's partly control freak, and partly I really like what I do for a living. I have the luckiest job in the world. I can get up every day and do what I love for a living.
J. Michael Straczynski
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Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people.
J. B. Priestley -
I feel like I was in the last graduating class of commercial actors. TiVo! I was out there before TiVo came out, man.
Nate Torrence -
All Americans need a sense of place. That's what makes our physical surroundings worth caring about.
Ed McMahon -
High-energy collisions have led to the observation of many hundreds of new hadronic particle states. These new particles, which are generally unstable, appear to be just as fundamental as the neutron and the proton.
Carlo Rubbia -
Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
One of the general considerations about new buildings is that people tend to say that anything new is a monstrosity. And then after a while they either accept them or they go on thinking that they are monstrosities. Reactions vary. This depends to some extent on the quality of the building.
Joseph Rykwert